---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition"
description: "Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 899"
citation: "Maryland HB 899 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maryland Judicial Conference"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9e1be40-2ab1-4591-97d7-0e420cab862f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0899?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "bbddebb1cee49a12361bc937353a078d3e998637b7742208129bc350de26d4d2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 899 (2026) — Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_477_hb0899t.pdf)
2. **First - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0899f.pdf)
3. **Third - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0899t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **128–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Maryland Judicial Conference — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9e1be40-2ab1-4591-97d7-0e420cab862f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).